Bertrand Piccard, avid explorer and climate change advocate, plans to make a full trip around the Earth in a green-hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft. Planned for 2028, this trip would be the first nonstop zero-emission circumnavigation in human history. https://spectrum.ieee.org/hydrogen-fuel-cell-aircraft

How Bertrand Piccard's Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Aircraft Could Revolutionize Green Aviation
Bertrand Piccard, a modern explorer, aims to make history again by flying a green-hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft around the world nonstop by 2028. Known for his environmental missions, Piccard's journey began with overcoming a fear of heights through hang gliding. Inspired by his family's legacy of exploration, he combined aviation with psychiatry to push boundaries. Will his Climate Impulse project redefine aviation's future?
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